The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1887-05-14

! Gaugengigl, of Boston, has sold '".Tho
First lIearIng."a smull painting Of musicians
listening to II yonng violIuist of tho Inst
century, for 5000. 1853
The Administration DIES Domaines at
paris sold n fine. old carved work of Louis
A1V's timo to coalman for s.. Before there
was time to break 1t up n sharp dealer got
Wind Of tho snlc, found tho buyers address,
md bought 1t from his wife for 500.
Tennessee has passed a law assessing
lrtists So 30 n year rs license from State and
county to prosecute their profession. Ther
must pay that for heprivilcgc. Nothing was
Mld. presume" " rites the art editor OF the
1aiig american Of Nashville, ..about tho priv
cge OF legislator to mike MI cgrcgious ass
IF himself" y = $ ~, " n, ,.lSr
An Arab newspaper of, Sidon gives
another account Of tho sarcophagi found near
tho garden of tho cavo faclng the sidon nq,c-l
1uct. Nine were found, of whicl, six arc plain,
three highly 0rnamcnted. One shows n btt.o
between horscmcn and Amazons 60 Il horse
man las II woman % by the hair ind strikes her
h, tho neck so that tho blood flows. Two war
riors pierce n horseman In fnce md side, while
.orpscs lie under foot. The lid OF this sarco-
phagus has IN eagle with diadcm on It's head.
Another. coffin hns women carved on It's sides
In the net Of weeping, together. with figures
with long .nccks and two heads. Others show
:hnrots drawn by horses. horscmcr, and stand.
ing. figures, male ind female. All tho tombs
hld been ritied. .f ~. 5y.llsl9
In tho ancient burying.ground at Pla-
ccntin, Newfoundland, once tho capital under
French ascendency, stand two stones bc,,ring
Inscriptions innn unknown tongue. DR.. Rob,
ertson Smith, Of Cambridge, England, pro-
1ounccs them Basque, md It appears that they.
arc relics of tho fleets which used to sail from
tho northwest coast OF Spain to the fisheries be-
forc tho French and English gnincd complete
CONTROL. Cabot discovered tho island in 1904,
and In l5l7 there were forty Portuguese, Span
ish md French fishing craft In these waters;
BY 1918 MS many rs 400 were counted. The
basQucs, considered by Humboldt to represent
tho lbcri OF Spain, arc now thoughtito DO tho
only remnant Of great RICO popping Western
Europe which has kept its old language, tho
other members Of the RICO having, been alb
sorbed into tho Celtic and other conqucring
races SO completely US to take the languages OF
the conqucrors 3 -, X II
Asquare column with Corinthian cap
ltal bearing n pile Of cannon bulls and supported
by tall pedestal bearing inscriptions has been
placed In tho cemetery ut HopkinsvilIc, ny. It
commentaries tho unknown Confederate dead
buried there during tho war, and is erected by
John G. Latham, now of New. York. 4 His In
tentton was to include Unionist and Confedcr-'
atcs TN this memorial, but tho former have
already been removed to tho National Ccmcte ry
at Fort Donelson. The monument is OF granitc..
from Bangor, Ne, md has .".confcderatc Dead"
on ono side; "This monument Is erected ut tho
place Sof his birth by a surviving cornradc to
commemorate tho virtues Of tho Confederate
dead, "A. D. 1ss77, on another, and longer In.
,scriptions on the two remaining. (, Two sides Of
tho die are ornamental with crossed cannons,
bronze In relief, and tho square shaft above hns
"a rair Of crossed swords and iutIrci wrcath OF
tho Same material Tho column. is thirty
seven and n-half feet high. Tho remains Of lol
soldiers have been reinforced at the foot Of thci
monument. Is y. 8 e \ 81